Can I get findFilteredTopics to get Pms?

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pfaffman is exploring how to display private messages (PMs) on pages like /unread using findFilteredTopics. They initially tried filtering by query parameters but realized PMs aren’t handled like regular topics. pfaffman discovered that PMs can be accessed using a specific filter format, such as topics/private-messages-group/username/groupName, as seen in the Discourse source code pfaffman. This approach allows retrieving PMs for specific groups, though the exact method for filtering unread or new messages remains unclear.

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I’m interested in doing something like GitHub - nolosb/discourse-featured-lists: A Discourse theme component to feature custom topic lists. · GitHub that makes Pms display on some other pages (like latest).

The idea is that group PMs can be hard to find, so if I could get, say, unread group pms to display on /unread then that would be really cool.

Pretending for a minute that I can figure out how to get them to display, what I need is to get the data so that I can display it.

Can I do something like this:

    const topicList = await this.store.findFiltered('topicList', {
      filter: this.args.list.filter,
      params: {
        category: this.args.list.category,
        tags: this.args.list.tag,
        solved: solvedFilter,
      },
    });

but make the params get, say, the group PMs for staff or team or whatever?

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Well, it looks like I can sort-of do it like this:

    const topicList = await this.store.findFiltered('topicList', {
      filter: this.args.list.filter,
      // filter: "search",
      params: {
        // category: this.args.list.category,
        // tags: this.args.list.tag,
        // solved: solvedFilter,
        q: "upgraded in:messages"
      },
    });

that will give me my messages that have “upgraded” in them.

But I still can’t figure out how to get, say, unread messages, new messages, all messages, messages sent to a group.

Sigh. But it’s not a topic_list.

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But wait!!! I found the right filter over in

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/routes/build-private-messages-group-route.js#L33

    let topicListFilter = `topics/private-messages-group/${this.currentUser.username}/${groupName}`;
    console.log("consider the topic list", topicListFilter);
    const topicList = await this.store.findFiltered('topicList', {
      filter: topicListFilter,
      params: { },
    });